Were criminal stupidity an actual legal violation, Erich Storck would be guilty of it.

Mr Storck is a previously convicted felon, and, well, you can read it for yourself:

Man who fired shots with police in his house said he’d ‘never be caught without a gun’

by Karla ward | Tuesday, November 9, 2021 | 6:33 PM EDT

Nicholasville police arrested a man who fired a gun inside his home multiple times while police were there talking with him.

Police said they went to Erich Storck’s home on the 500 block of Courchelle Drive Monday evening in response to a call about shots fired in the area, according to a police uniform citation.

When they arrived, Storck, 49, was inside. With three officers inside the home trying to talk to him, police said Storck “fired multiple bullets,” which police said put their lives in danger, as well as the lives of his neighbors.

Police said two bullets exited Storck’s home, went through a neighbor’s window and lodged in the neighbor’s bathroom wall, which put the lives of the seven residents there “in substantial danger of death or serious physical injury.”

Police said Storck’s possession of a firearm was also “a violation of his Kentucky DVO.”

“When advised of this charge the above subject stated he would never be caught with out a gun,” police wrote in the uniform citation.

Naturally, the Lexington Herald-Leader did not publish Mr Storck’s mugshot, but it was easy enough to find.

This is why gun control will never work. Mr Storck is a previously convicted felon, and thus it is illegal for him to have a firearm. He was under a domestic violence order, which also prohibited him from having a firearm. But he was a drug dealer — the police got a warrant after seeing pot plainly visible in his house, and a more thorough search found plenty of evidence — and drug dealers, even small time ones, find firearms to simply be a necessary tool of their trade.

Mr Storck, allegedly, of course, reacted as a smoked up drug criminal would act: stupidly. But his statement shows that criminals won’t obey gun control laws, regardless of how the left think gun control laws will work.

Of course, there’s more. With his criminal history, he could not have purchased a firearm legally, so someone else must have violated the law in getting it for him. That guy might never be found.